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HEEP Pre-Doctoral Fellow alum Hunt Allcott has been granted tenure as an Associate Professor of Economics at New York University. Professor Allcott is an applied microeconomist who studies topics in environmental and energy economics, industrial organization, public economics, behavioral economics, and development microeconomics. Read more about Hunt Allcott Granted Tenure at New York University

[NPR radio interview with Robert N. Stavins] Delegates from nearly 200 countries are in Morocco this week to work out how to implement the Paris Climate Agreement. That's the historic accord under which countries including the U.S. pledged to limit global temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, and to help poorer countries transition away from fossil fuel.

But, with the election of Donald Trump last week, some environmentalists are worried the U.S. will backtrack.